Aug 20 1953

From The Space Library

Redstone missile No. 1 was fired by Army Redstone Arsenal personnel at AFMTC, Cape Canaveral, Fla.

Longest nonstop flight by single engined jet fighters, made by 17 USAF F-84G Thunderjets from Albany, Ga., to Lakenheath, England, a distance of 4,485 miles.

USSR first announced H-bomb explosion, later reported by AEC to have occurred in U.S.S.R. on August 12.

First successful launching by NACA Langley's PARD of a hypersonic research vehicle for beat transfer studies consisting of a cluster of three Deacon first stage and HPAG rocket second stage, at Wallops Island, Va.